Patrick Rubinstein: The “Dooble” Accordion-Fold Technique

Patrick Rubinstein was born into a family where cinema and art combined their magic: his mother enamoured with film, his father immersed in graphic and kinetic arts. 

That dual inheritance—emotive storytelling from cinema, mechanical precision from kinetic form—became the heartbeat of his creative identity. From early days he was captivated by the optical experiments of the late-20th century, and he would go on to shape his own visual language that bridges pop culture, motion and illusion.

Rubinstein’s art evokes a joyous suspension of time: portraits of cultural icons, flashes of film-still glamour, and bold chromatic play converge in works that seem to shimmer with both childhood nostalgia and high-tech sophistication. 

His technical innovation—the patented “Dooble” or accordion-fold technique and multi-view constructs—allows viewers to step around his pieces and witness a transformation: two or three distinct images merge, separate, and mingle depending on the angle. The gilded surfaces and rich textures of his mixed-media canvases add to the theatrical effect: they are at once playful and majestic, flirtatious and grandiose.